Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Odds and Ends

15 comments:

Yogi Bear proves, once again, that you don't need a $50 million budget (-cough-Lion King-cough-) to create movement of character or humor. It takes construction and strength of character to win a duel.

Hey John, I am a new guy in here.. First of all I wanna tell you how big a fan I am, and second, I really appreciate the lectures you're giving to us, here on you blogg... I have a question to, I was wondering, are you gonna put all those very useful lectures and comments into a book or something, sometime?- Wormen

The red panel, in the Yogi strip, with the Smith and Yogi silhouettes, is very imaginative. There's no real reason for it. The rest of the strip is set in daytime, without even an indication of the sun going down, or something like that. Instead, its just an odd juxtapositioning of the two heads.

Rummaging through some old research notes, I found a quote John should like:

"There is a mania among people these days to have 'good' television for children, and by good they mean vapid, inane, safe, saccharine, unexciting, unstimulating, ultra-puerile, and unentertaining.... Surely children are getting enough education in their classrooms.... Why not let them swing a little?" "Children's Television 1969"

The writer was awarded his Master of Humanities degree by the University of Chicago for the thesis quoted above.